I am logged into Stack with my Google openID account. Within StackExchange there is a "my logins" tab inside my account prefs. The wording of this "add more logins" implies to me that I can add a second Google account that would be mapped to the Stack account that I am currently logged into.

So, I try to add my alternate Google account, but whatever I do, it wants to create a second Stack account that is separate from my currently logged in Google Stack account.

The look and language of the "add more logins" popup implies to me that there is a one-to-many relationship between the One stack account and the Many other logins , which can include facebook or other google accounts, etc.

But, this does not seem to be the case.

Can anyone enlighten me on this or clarify this better in the documentation? Perhaps, instead of calling it "add more logins" , you could call it, "add another account with a different login" ?

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"Add more logins" is right. You can have multiple logins (even multiple Google logins) associated with your account.

There's a bit of a trick to getting it to work with Google specifically. The details are described here.

The problem is that once you sign out of your first Google account, you are by extension also signed out of Stack Exchange, so when you enter your second set of credentials, you're now registering for a new account instead of adding a login to your existing one (which you are now signed out of because you signed out of Google on your first account).

Two ways to get around that:

Add a temporary non-Google OpenID, sign in with that, and then add another Google account.